The most valuable 'real estate' in a film is time. So it is a very bad sign when a movie that spends so much screen time looping and repeating events has to resort to voice-over, or exposition-dump characters to get elements of the story across.
What little writing took place to get this boring atrocity on film was very bad. There is nothing going on for 96% of the run time. And when it is time to move the story along, instead of using imagery, suggestion or metaphors, this movie has a character just say sentences to the main character that expose what is actually going on. For example, in another movie where the central plot was to 'overcome difficulty,' a main character in a looping/revisiting story might see the same small bird fall out of a nest and keep trying to get back in, making the character realize that he has to overcome difficulty to reach his goal. In this movie, while a montage of very bad and pointless repeating events take place, a minor character will be heard just saying to the protagonist "you have to overcome difficulty! OVERCOME DIFFICULTY!" ominously (this is not a spoiler, and the central mystery to this movie has nothing to do with overcoming.)
Truly, this is a movie where the trailer delineates every single event in the movie, and insanely there is still looping and repeating in the trailer. This should give you an idea of how much unnecessary loop-montage will waste your time in this movie.
Bad acting, very bad choices in the directing (ie. Montages, shots, acting direction etc...,) bad filming, bad story. Don't waste your time.
**spoiler below**
IF the point of the looping seaside weekend was to get the character to realize what he had done. AND he accomplishes this by breaking up with her, and letting her leave the island. Then why, at the end of the film does the character not know what happened?
Will never watch again.
What little writing took place to get this boring atrocity on film was very bad. There is nothing going on for 96% of the run time. And when it is time to move the story along, instead of using imagery, suggestion or metaphors, this movie has a character just say sentences to the main character that expose what is actually going on. For example, in another movie where the central plot was to 'overcome difficulty,' a main character in a looping/revisiting story might see the same small bird fall out of a nest and keep trying to get back in, making the character realize that he has to overcome difficulty to reach his goal. In this movie, while a montage of very bad and pointless repeating events take place, a minor character will be heard just saying to the protagonist "you have to overcome difficulty! OVERCOME DIFFICULTY!" ominously (this is not a spoiler, and the central mystery to this movie has nothing to do with overcoming.)
Truly, this is a movie where the trailer delineates every single event in the movie, and insanely there is still looping and repeating in the trailer. This should give you an idea of how much unnecessary loop-montage will waste your time in this movie.
Bad acting, very bad choices in the directing (ie. Montages, shots, acting direction etc...,) bad filming, bad story. Don't waste your time.
**spoiler below**
IF the point of the looping seaside weekend was to get the character to realize what he had done. AND he accomplishes this by breaking up with her, and letting her leave the island. Then why, at the end of the film does the character not know what happened?
Will never watch again.